Pre Code Movies

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that...

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets...

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and...

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent...

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he...

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but...

Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote...

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married...

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party...

A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his...

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor...